Yuri Kageyama, Author at Greenfield Recorder

Protesters against the Tokyo Olympics gather outside Akasaka Palace, Japanese state guest house where the welcome party for IOC President Thomas Bach and its officials are held in Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, July 18, 2021. The banner, yellow, reads "IOC is a looter ! Use Olympic fees for social welfare". (Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP)

Zero risk? Virus cases test Olympic organizers’ assurances

by Stephen Wade Associated Press, Yuri Kageyama Associated Press, and Gerald Imray Associated PressJuly 18, 2021July 18, 2021

TOKYO — Two South African soccer players became the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19, and other cases connected to the Tokyo Games were also confirmed Sunday, highlighting the herculean task organizers face to…

A bird rests with a backdrop of the Olympic rings floating in the water in the Odaiba section Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Tokyo. Two top officials of Japan's ruling LDP party on Thursday, April 15, 2021, said radical changes could be coming to the Tokyo Olympics. One went as far to suggest they still could be canceled, and the other that even if they proceed, it might be without any fans. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Officials say Olympic cancellation, no fans still an option

by Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press, and Yuri Kageyama Associated PressApril 15, 2021April 15, 2021

FILE - In this March 23, 2020, file photo, a worker walks through the athletes village for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, in Tokyo. Tokyo’s governor is considering the possibility of using the unfinished Olympic Athletes Village as a temporary hospital for coronavirus infected patients. The massive village on Tokyo Bay could house up to 18,000 people during the Olympics. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Athletes Village for Olympics could house virus patients

by Yuri Kageyama Associated Press, and Stephen Wade Associated PressApril 3, 2020April 3, 2020

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2019, file photo, then newly appointed Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Seiko Hashimoto speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. Hashimoto's response to a question in the upper house of Parliament on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, implies the Olympics could be held later in the year and would not have to start on July 24, 2020. Tokyo's Olympics are being threatened by a fast-spreading virus...

Japan Olympic Minister: Games could be held any time in 2020

by Yuri Kageyama Associated Press, and Mari Yamaguchi Associated PressMarch 3, 2020March 3, 2020

Japan's Naomi Osaka celebrates after defeating Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic in their semifinal at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)

Nissin drops Osaka ad after complaints, star focused on game

by Yuri Kageyama Associated PressJanuary 24, 2019

Buildings are partially submerged by floodwaters caused by heavy rains in Kure, south western Japan, Saturday, July 7, 2018. Torrents of rainfall and flooding continued to batter southwestern Japan. (Shingo Nishizume/Kyodo News via AP)

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38 dead, nearly 50 reported missing as heavy rain hits Japan

by Yuri Kageyama Associated PressJuly 9, 2018

In this image made from video, former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in an event sponsored by a Japanese nonprofit group, in Tokyo, Sunday, March 25, 2018. Obama said negotiations with North Korea on its nuclear weapons program are difficult, partly because the country's isolation minimizes possible leverage, such as trade and travel sanctions against Pyongyang. (AP Photo)

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Obama, in Japan, says NKorea’s isolation means less leverage

by Yuri Kageyama Associated PressMarch 25, 2018

Protesters hold placards that read: “Our anger has reached its limit” during a protest rally against the presence of U.S. military bases on the southwestern island of Okinawa in Naha, Okinawa, Sunday, as many of them wearing black to mourn the rape and killing of a local woman in which a former U.S. Marine is a suspect.

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Massive protest on Okinawa opposes US military

by Yuri Kageyama Associated PressJune 19, 2016